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Friday, July 17, 2015
Vol. 102, No. 175 • One Section
‘Southern gentleman’
Consensus builder called right leader at right time for council
By David Chapman Staff Writer Polite. Congenial. Mild-tempered. Genuine. Diplomatic. Even-keeled. A consensus builder. From those who know Greg Anderson, the list of positive adjectives quickly flows and often has the same tenor. The negatives? Those are a little harder to pin down regarding the City Council president. His terrible golf game, one banking colleague joked. His affinity for the University of Georgia Bulldogs, a fellow council member quipped. Anderson would say his reticence in certain situations. “I would rather listen than speak,” he said. “It’s one of the things I’d like to work on.” While the negatives might be hard to discern, it’s the positives that many believe make Anderson the perfect fit for leading council this year. It’s a period when 11 of the 19-member group and a new mayor are taking on their roles for the first time. The EverBank senior banking officer understands this challenge. But he’s also prepared — like others, he thinks his manner and skill set will be crucial when it comes to leading. “I have a vision for Jacksonville,” he said, “and that vision is that we really achieve our full potential.” It will take teamwork on many fronts to achieve that. But, then again, that’s what many think he’s best at. Anderson always has been the studious kind, in more than just his time in politics. A banking career brought him to Jacksonville in 1984, where he met his wife of 26 years, Beville. Soon thereafter, Anderson was recruited by Mellon Bank and relocated to Pittsburgh. More than a decade later, though, it was back home to Jacksonville with their sons, Mac and Quillan. Through the years, Anderson had Anderson
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Wanting to make a difference
City Council President Greg Anderson will lead the mostly new 19-member group over the next year, bringing a cordial, consensus-building approach his colleagues say is wellsuited for the time.
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Retail to replace Golden Corral
After the closed Golden Corral comes down along Beach Boulevard near the Regal theaters, a shopping center will go up in its place. Owner John Cothran plans to build a 15,100-square-foot multitenant retail center that should open in early 2016. The city issued a demolition permit Wednesday for the almost 9,900-squarefoot Golden Corral building. Cothran, based in South Carolina, said he bought the 1.6-acre property 16 years ago when Golden Corral was building there and did a sale-leaseback. When the restaurant closed, it was on the market but three sales contracts didn’t work out, he said. “It’s such a great location,” Cothran said. The property is in front of the 18-screen Regal Cinemas Beach Boulevard, next to Suni Pines Boulevard. Cothran expects some letters of intent soon, including from a restaurant that wants 5,000 square feet at one end so it could have a drive-thru. He declined to identify prospective tenants. A formal name for the project has not been chosen. The architect is Jacksonville-based Dasher Hurst Architects. Dasher Hurst said the center includes the 5,000-square-foot restaurant space and six 1,600-square-foot tenant spaces that can be combined as needed. Mark Farrell, founder of Killashee Investments, is representing Cothran as the leasing broker and will manage the property when it opens. “We’re getting a lot of activity,” Farrell said. He is talking to several large restaurant users, as well as other retailers. “A restaurant there makes a lot of Mathis continued on Page A-2
Walk-in medical clinic now open Downtown By Max Marbut Staff Writer If you live or work Downtown and sustain a minor injury or illness, you no longer have to leave the neighborhood for treatment. First Stop Urgent Care is open at 47 W. Adams St., between Laura and Main streets. Practice administrator Mandy Gast said First Stop opened Downtown to offer the more than 25,000 people who live and work in the urban core a way to be treated sooner than by having to make an appointment with their doctor. “Everybody goes to work sick and they don’t want to have to
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“We don’t treat emergencies, we treat urgencies.” Rick Albarran Advanced registered nurse practitioner at First Stop Urgent Care wait to see their primary care physician,” Gast said. “We can treat patients on their lunch hour or when they’re on their way home.” First Stop also is a convenience for guests staying in Downtown
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hotels and it’s the closest walk-in clinic to the residential communities along Riverside Avenue in Brooklyn, Gast said. The clinic is staffed by nurse practitioners who are licensed to treat common ailments such as allergies, ear and eye infections, flu symptoms, upper respiratory infections and rashes. They also treat acute injuries including burns, sprains, fractures, lacerations and pulled muscles and can prescribe drugs with the exception of narcotics. The clinic stocks most common antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs and steroids. That eliminates a stop at a Clinic continued on Page A-4
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Can treat ailments from flu to fractures
Rick Albarran, an advanced registered nurse practitioner, and Stephanie Weiser, radiological technician and medical assistant, treat patients at First Stop Urgent Care, Downtown’s new walk-in medical clinic.
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